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Remote-Controlled Robot Could Browse The Stacks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anonymous-shopping-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Japanese team of researchers has developed a robot that could help browse for books in a library by receiving instructions via the Internet, a team member said Friday. The robot, a wheeled vehicle measuring 50 by 45 centimeters with a digital camera, mechanical hand and arm, follows orders received through the Internet." This reminds me somewhat of Sonoma State University's (quite different) system profiled a few years ago in Wired.

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  1. Takes the fun out of the library by Brataccas · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Maybe I'm just too much of a geek...but this robot takes all the fun out of going to the library. When I need to find information on a subject, I find the general area and then leaf through as many related books as I can. Gives you a much better overview of the subject to see it from different perspectives, you discover new ideas and relationships to other subjects.

    Bah! In my day, we actually read the books...and we LIKED it!